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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 03:35 AM
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19. Dammit! Just when I was going to post an answer to the dead
freeper, I have trouble logging on!

Those IBM Selectronics didn't cost 5-6k back in '72 as the dead freeper said, and they were very common.

My dad, who was an officer in the Air Force (SAC), had one at home in the early 70's. They were very affordable in '72. He used to let me make machine gun sounds with it, typing hyphens across the page. There's NO WAY he would have let me do that on something costing over a few hundred bucks. His was less than $400.00. These typewriters were VERY common, even in podunk little offices in rural America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter
http://www.ibmcomposer.org/SelComposer/description.htm

This seller on eBay is selling one and says that the Selectric Composer II retailed for $400.00: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3838133586

We should hammer the shit out of Bush on ALL fronts.
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